Filmmaker wins grant for movie about internment of Japanese Americans

Library of Congress / Russell Lee

This historical photo from the Library of Congress shows the Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, Calif. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order.

This historical photo from the Library of Congress shows the Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, Calif. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order.

Chicago filmmaker getting $160k grant for film on internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.

Chicago filmmaker Eugene Sun Park has been awarded a nearly $160,000 grant to make a short narrative film about a "key moment of the Japanese-American incarceration experience" during World War II.

Titled "The Orange Story," plans are to shoot the 20-minute film in Chicago as well as California. Park is producing the project with his company Full Spectrum Features.

In the wake of the 1942 executive order that forced Japanese-Americans out of their homes and into internment camps, the film centers on the story of one man, Koji Oshima, the owner of a corner grocery in San Fransisco who "must now abandon everything."